Event Tickets: Ever Paid Above Face Value?

[sv2007]

I don't recall ever doing so. We have done the opposite. We bought tickets and then re-sold for more than we paid. I recall doing that a few times when we got good seats and just bought up some extras knowing that ticket prices would be higher if we sold. Just concerts, not even any BIG names. So nothing huge and profitable, but maybe could have sold $50 tickets for $75 or $100 because they were hard to get.

I've done the opposite of you: I've bought tickets and resold for less. But, I've also bought tickets at less too (from people in similar situations).

[feh]

I can count the number of times on one hand, but yes, I've paid more than face value.

[disneysteve]

I'm not counting ticketmaster and sllly fees as over face value. I remember, 15+ years ago, when you call the box office and buy will call, there's no fees at all. Now many want a convenience fee

I love this. I go online. I check the seating chart. I select and purchase the tickets. I pay for the tickets. I print the tickets out at home. They charge me a "convenience" fee after I do all of the work. I should be charging them the fee.

[bigdaddybus]

I have paid over face value to see my favorite football team. To me it sucks to pay up for tickets, but I understand its a supply and demand thing and I am willing to pay to go.

My neighbor is a season ticket holder to the Cubs. He sold his pair of tickets for game 3 for 6K, Game 4 for 7K, and game 5 for $1850.

[scfr]

Fortunately, the events I really like seems to not be popular enough where I must buy from scalpers.

Me too, and I go to maybe one event per year, usually a low-key one. This year my event is seeing the Bolshoi Ballet perform the Nutcracker via "Bolshoi Ballet Cinema." Last year I saw Hamlet via "National Theatre Live." (I'm sure some wouldn't consider those events. But to me they are.)

In 2017 I am going to one professional sporting event, and that one is very popular and won't be at all low-key, but I purchased the tickets during the pre-sale window (4 months in advance). Had I waited I probably would have had to choose between not going or paying above face value and I would have chosen not going.

If I were a lifelong fan of a professional sports team, I definitely could see myself paying above face value to see them in a championship game one time if that were on my bucket list.

[moneybags]

I bought tickets on stubhub to game 7 of the World Series! It was worth every penny. Go CUBS! (I am a very frugal person in most instances; this allows me to be stupid with my money once in awhile.)

[sblatner]

SF Giants tickets off of StubHub!